The Power of Fragility (HD Video 5’35 2023) includes various artefacts brought back from a journey in to the future: diaries, letters, photographs, a collage and a sound recording. Together these elements describe a future on Earth, following a Great Migration, where those with the means to do so had colonised space, and had taken with them all those who could be useful. They left behind, on a supposedly dying planet, women past child-bearing age, the sick, the disabled, the mentally ill and the ugly. Those who remained set about caring for the planet and for each other.

Present day visitors who viewed the artefacts were invited to record messages for those left behind, or their own ideas about a post-apocalyptical world.

Jess Ross-Dreher: curator’s interpretation (Stance: Dalston 2024)

Sabrina works primarily in mediums that somatically record the human experience, such as “still/moving image, voice, sound and text”, she gives as examples. The exhibited piece - ‘The Power of Fragility’ - is a hyper-collage of each of these mediums, layering the sound, text, paper designs, and more of those deemed inconducive to a capitalist future. The literal cutting and re-sticking of such elements serves as a physical manifestation of the video’s message: the hope to deconstruct, reconsider and recreate the idea of an ideal future on Earth and who its ideal tenants truly are; to reorient the meanings of progress and productivity to ones which entail sustainability instead of excess and care instead of colonisation.